Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (2001-03-22)

NamUs UP14992 concerns skeletal remains found by land-clearing workers in woods beneath high-power lines between Pratt Highway and railroad tracks. The official record is listed as open or unresolved, but the supplied excerpt omits key identifying and investigative details.

Incident date: March 22, 2001
Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County
Independent sources: 3

The record

An unidentified person whose skeletal remains were discovered in Birmingham remains the subject of an open NamUs record.1

According to the U.S. Department of Justice database, workers clearing land beneath high-power lines found the remains in a wooded area between Pratt Highway and a set of railroad tracks.1

The supplied NamUs excerpt does not publish the person’s sex, ethnicity, recovery date or primary investigating agency.1 Although the case materials label the matter as a March 22, 2001, Birmingham case, that date and city are not stated in the retrieved source excerpt and could not be independently confirmed from the supplied documents.

NamUs lists the record as UP14992 and open or unresolved.1

Two news articles were included in the source set, but neither could be retrieved. Their contents therefore were not used to establish facts about this unidentified person.23

Timeline

March 22, 2001Unknown
Case metadata gives this as the incident or recovery date, but the date is absent from the retrieved NamUs excerpt.
UnknownConfirmed
Workers clearing land beneath high-power lines discovered skeletal remains in a wooded area between Pratt Highway and railroad tracks.
Current status in supplied NamUs recordConfirmed
NamUs case UP14992 is open or unresolved.

Documented claims

NamUs record UP14992 is open or unresolved.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
Skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area by workers clearing land beneath high-power lines, between Pratt Highway and a set of railroad tracks.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs excerpt does not publish the unidentified person's sex, ethnicity, recovery date, location field or primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The case materials describe this as a Birmingham case dated March 22, 2001, but those details are not stated in the retrieved NamUs excerpt.
Unknown
Source on file · Single-source claim.
The supplied CBS News and AL.com pages could not be retrieved, so their contents could not be evaluated or used as factual support.
Unknown
Source: CBS News · Single-source claim.

Sources

NamUs Unidentified Person Case UP14992 — U.S. Department of Justice NamUsOpen
Janet Luxford 2001 cold case; Brian Jones confesses to murder and leads police to body — CBS NewsOpen
Man waits 20 years to admit he killed woman, stuffed her inside suitcase in 2001, Bessemer police say — AL.comOpen